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Do you know of Ohio City ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ohio City. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Ohio City. We found mention of Ohio City as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Franklin County, Kansas. It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1857 and closed in 1870. This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others. Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices. Communities Also Named Ohio City ...We found six communities that share the name Ohio City. There are two communities within Kansas that are also named Ohio City. Beyond Kansas, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ohio City ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Ohio City: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2> More Orphans in Franklin County ...Can you help? As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Franklin County. Footnotes ...
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